AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (2589MHz vs 1560MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 XT +47%

10.6 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7703

Radeon RX 6600 XT +24%

9577

Blender

Radeon RX 5600 XT +100%

2376

Radeon RX 6600 XT

1187

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

31

Radeon RX 6600 XT +22%

38

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

64

Radeon RX 6600 XT +12%

72

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

99

Radeon RX 6600 XT +20%

119

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

47

Radeon RX 6600 XT +23%

58

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

92

Radeon RX 6600 XT +20%

111

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

125

Radeon RX 6600 XT +15%

144

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

50

Radeon RX 6600 XT +22%

61

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

61

Radeon RX 6600 XT +34%

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +14%

170

Radeon RX 6600 XT

149

Radeon RX 5600 XT

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Radeon RX 6600 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Jul 2021

Navi

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

1968 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

2589 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

32

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.7 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

331.4 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.21 TFLOPS

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.60 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

662.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Navi 23

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XT (215-130000006)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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